By the middle of October the maples along the roads in Gray have turned, and the first real frost comes down off the mountains overnight and silvers everything before eight. Mcnabb lawn & landscapes moves into the season's other half then — the last mows of the year, the leaves raked out of bed corners and off the grass before they mat down and smother it. A yard cleared before the rains is a yard that comes back in March instead of limping. Trimming and edging still get done, because a lawn heading into winter should look intentional rather than abandoned. Then the mower goes quiet, and the town gets on with autumn.